It popped out as a https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608190 where one of packages failed to build with CFLAGS=-ggdb3 was guile-2.0.13 guile git master is also affected: $ ./configure CFLAGS=-ggdb3 $ make make[1]: Entering directory '/home/slyfox/dev/git/guile/libguile' CC libguile_2.2_la-alist.lo In file included from alist.c:398:0: ../libguile/alist.x: In function 'scm_init_alist': ../libguile/alist.x:2:2537: error: conflicting types for 'scm_i_foreign_call' The problem here is in gcc -ggdb3 which leaves too much of unrelated input. guile-snarf does not understand how to drop it: guile/libguile $ guile-snarf alist.c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DBUILDING_LIBGUILE=1 -I.. -I.. -I../lib -I../lib -I/usr/lib64/libffi-3.2.1/include -I/home/slyfox/dev/git/guile -ggdb2 | wc -c 1389 guile/libguile $ guile-snarf alist.c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DBUILDING_LIBGUILE=1 -I.. -I.. -I../lib -I../lib -I/usr/lib64/libffi-3.2.1/include -I/home/slyfox/dev/git/guile -ggdb3 | wc -c 230085 Fails on both gcc-5.4.0 / gcc-6.3.0 -- Sergei